Office Pool Spreadsheet Bracket Calculator

Please test the functionality of your calculator prior to entering all your data as some versions of Microsoft excel do not seem to support the formulas I have used.

Updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 7:15 P.M. Central Time

This version corrected an error in the "Enter Picks & Results" sheet with auto-filling the group stage participants picks into rows E,34 to BB,34 and E,44 to BB,44 for the quarter-final match-ups.

If you want to correct the error without re-downloading the calculator and having to re-enter your picks follow these instructions:

Click on square D,34 and copy it, then highlight squares E,34 to BB,34 by clicking in E,34 then going to Square BB,34 and holding the shift key while you click on that square. This should highlight all the squares from E,34 to BB,34, then click paste and it should paste the function that you copied from D,34 into all these squares. This should rectify the issue for any false reading you were getting in row 34.

Then do the same for D,44 that is copy the D,44 square's function into squares E,44 to BB,44

Another way you can copy the function into those squares at least in Apple Numbers is to click on the square whose function you want to copy into the adjacent squares and click and hold the little dot in the lower right hand corner of the highlighted square and drag it over the squares that you want that formula to be. In this case click on D,44 and drag that function to the right over squares E,44 to BB,44.

Use this spreadsheet to rank sports players or teams in a recurring sporting event of football, baseball, golf, soccer, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, baseball, cricket, chess, pool, cards, Texas Hold'em, Poker, flag football, basketball, bowling, or any game or sport. It supports up to 101 participants

Sports Player Ranking Table

This Ranking Table (above) auto populates from the data entry sheet below. Rankings are easily sortable. The ranking is based on the performance of the participants or teams in a recurring competition. Points for each match are awarded based on the number of participants for the particular game divided by the players finish, hence if there are 12 participants and a player finishes 1rst then he gets 12 points, if second with 12 participants then 6 points and on down to twelfth place getting 1 point (12 participants divided by 12th place). This point system is repeated for each match. The Ranking Calculator performs these calculations automatically after entering the number of participants in the match and the match results in the data entry sheet. If you base your ranking on performance over 6 matches then you enter the seventh match results over the first match results. I like this system because it encourages participation (if you don't show up for a match you don't get points) and it's an exponential reward for finishing higher i.e. there is great separation between finishing first as opposed to second but not so much difference between twelfth from eleventh if it's a 12 team/man competition for that match. Also the more participants in a match the more points you get for finishing first i.e. If there are 20 participants in a match and you finish first you get 20 points, if there a five participants in a match and you finish first you get 5 points.